Young Thug Arrested on Gang-Related Charges: Reports – Billboard

Younger Thug has reportedly been arrested and booked into an Atlanta court docket on gang-related prices.

The Slime Language rapper, actual title Jeffery Lamar Williams, was booked into Fulton County Jail Monday (Might 9) on two separate counts, jail information present.

The Grammy Award-winning artist is claimed to be charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and participation in road gang exercise.

The primary of these prices pertains to an alleged offense in January 2013, whereas the second, the gang exercise cost, is in connection to occasions from Might 2018, in keeping with a number of experiences.

Williams is schedule to make his first court docket look Tuesday at 11:30 am, Channel 2 experiences.

The 30-year-old hip-hop star has had a number of tangles with the legislation in recent times. In 2017, he was arrested in Brookhaven, GA on drug-related prices. On that event, the Jeffery star was reportedly slapped with a felony drug cost and a misdemeanor for having tinted home windows.

Then, the next yr, in 2018, a grand jury warrant for eight felonies was issued in his title, linked to the September 2017 arrest, the place he was present in possession of marijuana, hydrocodone, methamphetamine and a firearm.

Two days later. the then-27-year-old turned himself in to DeKalb County authorities. He was launched, then briefly returned to jail following a failed drug take a look at.

Younger Thug has three leaders on the Billboard 200 chart, together with 2021’s Punk, and made seven appearances within the Prime 10. He has impacted the Billboard Scorching 100 on 77 events, together with three No. 1s as a characteristic artist on Camilla Cabello’s “Havana” (2017), Travis Scott’s “Franchise,” and Drake’s “Method 2 Attractive” (2021), respectively.

He has amassed 4 Grammy nominations throughout his profession, profitable for track of the yr in 2019 for Donald Glover’s “This Is America,” which he co-wrote.

Younger Thug’s reps have but to touch upon his newest arrest.